In Lyon, the Lumière Prize 2022 will be awarded to Tim Burton

The dark and enchanted worlds of Tim Burton have won over moviegoers around the world.

The Lumière Festival is not to be outdone, since it announced this Wednesday that it was awarding him the Lumière 2022 Prize. The 63-year-old Californian filmmaker will receive his award on October 21 in Lyon.

He will succeed New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion in 2021.

"He is a visionary, a stylist and an artist who has offered world cinema a universe of rare coherence and an aesthetic impact unprecedented in popular culture", explains in a press release the management of the international film festival. .

"This fall, Lumière 2022 will therefore offer a dive into Wonderland somewhere between Americana and its legends, Victorian England, futuristic megalopolises and suburban housing estates, in the company of heroes, monsters, monstrous heroes or heroic monsters from the world of Tim Burton,” she adds.

Many masterpieces in 35 years

Follower of the fantastic and influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, this "true rock star of the 7th art", according to the festival, has delivered several pearls in 35 years of career: from

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Burton has toured with a host of actors, including stalwarts Michael Keaton, Johnny Depp – whom he has directed eight times – and Helena Bonham Carter, his ex-girlfriend and mother of his two children.

His long collaboration with composer Danny Elfman also helped forge the Burton legend, underlines the Festival Lumière.

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